Virtual 45RPM #2

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April is National Poetry Month in the United States, and what better way to celebrate than with two unearthed tracks featuring typical Nil euphony coupled with neofluxus poetics? Virtual 45RPM #2 is free to download, so just do it and get it over with.
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Nil commenced music production early in 1998 and proceeded to record hundreds of cassettes of original music in basements and bedrooms, shacks and tents throughout the Franklin & Hampshire County Tri-Lettuce Belt region of western Massachusetts. Five years later the creative flame was instantly extinguished when an exploding furnace obliterated two key members of the band during a recording session. Fortunately, however, the cassette tapes survived. The oeuvre Nil left behind spans a wide sonic spectrum--from turgid ass-plunger to sublime hook-driven accessibility--encapsulating the experimental spirit which fountain-spurt during the great 4-track recording revolution of the late 20th-century.

When the transfer of all the analog cassettes to the digital realm is complete(target date: Sept. 2019), the tapes will be epoxied together to make a coffee table which will then be placed on permanent display in the MoMA custodial break room.

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NILEasthampton, Massachusetts

Nil began making music in Amherst MA, early in 1998. They played roughly once per week, recording over 500 cassette tapes,
until March, 2003, when 2 of the band members were destroyed by an exploding furnace. These are the tapes they made while they existed....more